Also on Saturday there were problems accessing the website of the Holy See “vatican.va”, while many pages could not be opened and when clicked the message “404 Not Found” appeared.
Experts reported possible “ddos”-type cyber attacks, where hackers send large amounts of data from different sources to a target in order to slow down the system to a standstill. The Vatican reported two days ago that the “anomalous access attempts” did not come from a single country. Vatican IT staff is busy trying to determine the nature of the “anomaly.”
The Vatican websites, including those of the Vatican Museums, were paralyzed for several hours by a suspected cyber attack on Wednesday. Ukrainian Ambassador to the Holy See Andrei Yurasch blamed Russian hackers for the attack. The alleged cyber attack was probably a “reaction to the last important statements” by the pope. The Vatican website is now accessible again.
In an interview published Monday, the pontiff said the “cruelest” in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine may be those who “do not belong to the Russian tradition, like the Chechens, the Buryats and so on.” Russia was outraged by the Pope’s statements.
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